A wedding favor is the gift from the bride and groom to their guests. Thousands of years before, people used to give wedding favor to their guests. The wedding favor is actually the five candles, which represent five things that are health, wealth, happiness, fertility and longevity. This trend has been changed now. People now give pictures, frames, candles and chocolates as the wedding favors. Candleholder is the most popular person of the wedding. Wedding favor is an important impact of representing love to one another.
Wedding favors are actually small gifts that are given as a gesture of appreciation or gratitude to the guests from the bride and groom, during their wedding ceremony. Wedding favors are also given at the time of wedding reception. Tradition of distributing wedding favors is very old, but is has become very popular and famous nawadays. History tells that the tradition of distributing wedding favors were discovered by European citizens, but nowadays almost all country’s bride and groom distribute wedding favors to guests.
Distributing wedding favors were very common amongst European aristocrats, and it was know as bonbonniere, which is a small trinket box made of crystal, porcelain, or precious stones. Bonbonniere small trinket precious boxes were generally sugar cubes or delicate confections. At that time, they were used to symbolize wealth and royalty. But in this modern era, sugar is considered as an expensive commodity that is used daily in almost all homes. In the past ages, bonbonnieres were also replaced with almonds. For centuries, almonds were commonly distributed to wedding guests, which actually showed to signify wellwishes on the bridegroom’s new life with full of fun. But today, gifts to guests are commonly known as wedding favors.